While reports of possible NCAA violations percolate around the Auburn football program and are being vehemently denied, another tale has arisen. This one involves alleged use of synthetic marijuana by members of the 2010 Tigers team that won the BCS national championship.

ESPN's report claims Tigers football players failed numerous drug tests. One the players mentioned was running back Michael Dyer, who is a sidebar story in the latest allegations involving the football program.

According to the ESPN probe, dozens of seniors on the team that won the national title in January 2011 avoided detection because the school didn't begin testing for the drug until after the season ended.

The report also says that Dakota Mosley, at the time a freshman tight end, failed seven consecutive weekly tests but escaped punishment.

"The whole time, I was thinking, 'They can't do nothing about the spice,' " Mosley told ESPN The Magazine and affiliated TV news program "E:60."

Dyer rushed for 1,093 yards as a true freshman at Auburn and was the Most Valuable Player of the National Championship Game. He followed Gus Malzahn, then Auburn's offensive coordinator, to Arkansas State, where he was dismissed after being caught with marijuana in a traffic stop. Malzahn is now Auburn's head coach, and Dyer is on the Dean's List at his current school, Arkansas Baptist, his uncle told al.com.